Also 6 vise. [Absolute use of VICE- prefix.] One who acts in the place of another; a substitute or deputy.
In mod. use the second element is usually implied or expressed in the context, as in quot. 1852.
1597. Harvey, Trimming T. Nashe, Wks. (Grosart), III. 17. The Barbers were serued and they cut them, and were as Ioues Vises to make them fit for warre.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., Deputy, is … frequently used among us, for an Office, or Employ, not a Dignity; and stands indifferently for a Vice, or Lieutenant.
1811. Ora & Juliet, II. 180. Lord Berlington offered himself as Henry’s Vice, to conduct the other end of the table.
1820. Byron, Mar. Fal., V. iii. 66. The few … shall fawn Round a barbarian Vice of Kings’ Vicegerent.
1852. Dickens, Bleak Ho., x. He solaces his imagination, too, by thinking of the many Chancellors and Vices, and Masters of the Rolls, who are deceased.
1889. Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 140. It was indirectly a proof of the estimation in which the Vice [= Vice-Chancellor] was held.
